9.19.2008

More on Mechanical Turk

"Ten Thousand Cents" is a digital artwork that creates a representation of a $100 bill. Using a custom drawing tool, thousands of individuals working in isolation from one another painted a tiny part of the bill without knowledge of the overall task. Workers were paid one cent each via Amazon's Mechanical Turk distributed labor tool.

Unfortunately, Amazon doesn't take quite as good care of those who work on Mechanical Turk as it does to the customers at Amazon.com. You can get an idea what I mean at Broken Turk blog (http://brokenturk.blogspot.com)